Fusion-io Cache drive

[UtahDeLorean]

I have been trying to get a recently gifted to me Fusion-io drive to show up to use as a Cache drive

IT does show up in the system devices as

06:00.0 Mass storage controller: SanDisk ioDrive2 (rev 04)

 

I have the drivers, but I haven't been able to figure out how to install the drivers to allow the drive to show up

 

BTW - the 2nd Fusion-io drive I installed into my Gaming machine... Now it can keep up with my 1Gbps FttH connection!

[trurl]

Unless it appears as a SATA or IDE device I don't think unRAID will use it for cache. You might see if Unassigned Devices will allow it to be mounted outside the array.

[UtahDeLorean]

Well it's actually an PCIe Card... I have the drivers for it... I have one installed into my windows box and it is super fast and with my super fast FttH this would really help things out.

I have installed Unassigned Devices and seeing if that works now\

 

Edit - It doesn't show up... but I still believe that it's because the driver for this PCIe Card is not being loaded

 

I really want to make this work cause it will be a 785GB cache drive that would be super fast!

[UtahDeLorean]

Is there a way to install the drivers?

I have the driers, but need to find a proper way to do so in Unraid.

[JonathanM]

Is there a way to install the drivers?

I have the driers, but need to find a proper way to do so in Unraid.

Email [email protected] and ask for the drivers to be included in the next release. There is no easy way to load drivers since unraid unpacks itself from the usb and runs from RAM every time it boots.

[UtahDeLorean]

I sent an email out... I wouldn't even be upset if I had to load the drivers each time I rebooted (which is not very often).

I am sure that there is some smart person that has a script or something that runs during boot.

Additionally I know these PCIe storage cards have been debated and a lot of people even wonder why anyone would run one, but HEY! if it was free and would be kick-a$$ in the server who wouldn't run one?

[UtahDeLorean]

So I have received a server board with 2 Intel processors (I believe that they are 4 cores each) and two more Fusion IO drives. So now I have a total of 4 Fusion IO drives 2 1.6tb and 2 765gigs.

This MB that I got has 7 PCIe slots and I know that I am going to be getting more Fusion IO drives throughout the year. So I really want to start utilizing these drives (Plus I may be getting fiber channel hard drive cards (sorry it's late so I can't remember what they where called, but I have the ability to get them if I wanted them to hook up multiple boxes together).

 

So is there a way to build the drivers for these cards so that Unraid will see them or am I going to have to switch over to windows server and run everything from there now and sadly have to stop using Unraid?

 

Needless to say I have some shuffling to start doing. First swapping out MB ram and so forth.

I would really like to cont to use Unraid but with an influx of these higher performance cards I can't just let them sit there and collect dust if you know what I mean.

[BIGCHEW]

I am a unraid Noob that has ben on freenas for years & Love the speed it has! But i just migrated about 6Tb of data to unraid @ about 35mbps with a 10Gb & no cash drive ! so i need to know if the FUSION IO ioDriveII 1.2TB MLC PCIe SSD Will work on unraid for a cash drive ! it is very important to get my speeds back to 10gb (or as close as posible) an not a crappy 35mbps with a starting burst to 500mbps for like 3-5 seconds ! I Can not handle unraid with those kinds of speeds  so any help or advice will be greatly appreciated ! If Nothing can b done to Speed it up to 10gb or so Then i will Half To Go back to Freenas ! Thanks

Edited March 2, 2020 by BIGCHEW
my fat finger

[UtahDeLorean]

I never found a way for the Fusion IO drives, but you may want to check out a Intel drive or using a M.2 drive as a cache drive... The Fusion IO drives are a little slow now compared to something newer